Dement v. Summer’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 1976
16 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Brush v. Laurendine · Oakes v. State · Smith v. Dauber · Chadwick v. Bush · Montgomery v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trial by jury in a court of superior original jurisdiction is universally held to mean a jury of twelve qualified persons who shall decide the facts under the superintendence of a trial judge, who shall have the sole power to declare the law. ( 175 Miss. at 303-4 ; 165 So. at 793 ). [1]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.